On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Peter Nuttall <[email protected]>wrote:
> I remember working as an operator on shift at a site in London (mid 80's). > Think we had a 3081/3084. > The water cooling was done by a bank of radiators out in the car park. The > site was set on a > roundabout and during the summer months the radiators would get so clogged > up with the > heat/congestion and general rubbish flying about that they employed a guy > to just hose down the > radiators during the peak times of the day ... Water cooling the water > cooling system ... :-). > I like it! And I remember a site that had a swimming pool into which the heat was dumped (either that, or it was the backup cooling in case of chiller failure -- they'd drain the pool through the CPUs while they did an orderly shutdown). Either way, it seemed like a nice combination of employee perq and technology backup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
